If Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origins LLC are involved in a space race, the latter just raced far ahead after Blue Origins announced that the company’s New Shepard space vehicle managed to land safely back at its launch site in West Texas. The crew capsule of the rocket achieved an suborbital apogee of 329,839 feet (100.5 kilometers), going as far as Mach 3.72.